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Column nift for tax.com. good morning, david. >> good morning. >> you say there are nine things that the rich dont want you to know about taxes. walk us through them. >> the first one is this negotiation that poor americans dont pay taxes. ive heard a number of people on msnbc in the past few days assert that the top 1% pay 40% of the taxes. actually the top 1% pay 40% of the income taxes which are a minority of all federal taxes. and they are only one-fifth of all the taxes americans pay. as fo...

Columnist for tax.com and a former tax columnist for the "new york times." leo girard, president of the united steel workers international. gentlemen, thanks for your time tonight. david cay, well start with you first. just how devastating would this be to the elderly, to the disabled, and the children? >> well, this is a plan that basically says unless youre well to do, if you get sick, then youre going to die sooner and let me illustrate something. this plan for vouchers, take care of insuranc...

Welfare queens have taken advantage of medicaid for just too long and its time to reform it. but if you take a look at recent distribution of medicaid dollars, youll see a totally different story. of the 58 million medicaid recipients of 2007, nearly half of them were children. of the $300 billion in medicaid benefits the vast majority went to the elderly and the disabled. you would think it would be a bed rock of civil society to protect the elderly and disabled but ryans budget considers them,...

Worried about the business climate. do you know the state cease ently increased the corporate tax rate by 2.2%? the kicker here is that he wont say thats the reason he wants to move. his spokesman said this about his employees. that the personal tax rate is going up 2% so they are talking with other states about moving the entire company. so we have a company that is making the case that it will be better for its employees if they sell their homes, leave their schools, vacate the neighborhoods, ...

Schools, vacate the neighborhoods, you know, uproot the families, hit the road, and itll just be a more complete way of life for them. all of that to save 2% a year? joining me now is david cay johnston a columnist for tax.com, pulitzer prize winning evening, ed.former tax >> this is the epitome of arrogance when it comes to you better give me everything free so i can do business in your state. is this going to be, i would say, habit forming for these corporations? >> oh, its -- theyre all addic...

Part of their salaries, they defer it to an investment fund. its already money that they have earned. if you dont believe me just look at the states own website which says, quote, the fringe benefits offered to state of wisconsin employees are significant and are a valuable part of an individuals compensation package. hello. joining me tonight is david cay johnston a columnist for tax.com, pulitzer prize winning author, and former tax reporter for the "new york times." mr. johnson, i want to pla...

Part of their salaries, they defer it to an investment fund. its already money that they have earned. if you dont believe me just look at the states own website which says, quote, the fringe benefits offered to state of wisconsin employees are significant and are a valuable part of an individuals compensation package. hello. joining me tonight is david cay johnston a columnist for tax.com, pulitzer prize winning author, and former tax reporter for the "new york times." mr. johnson, i want to pla...

Cause our economic problems is not the right way to go. as for republicans, well, they say the president just didnt cut enough. speaker john boehner says the plan has too much spending. can you predict that? house budget chairman paul ryan, oh, he forgot about the extension of the bush tax cuts and also complained about the spending. >> the debt crisis is caused by spending, not taxes. and so lets go where the problem is, and thats spending. >> well, these are the same republicans who had no pro...

Cause our economic problems is not the right way to go. as for republicans, well, they say the president just didnt cut enough. speaker john boehner says the plan has too much spending. can you predict that? house budget chairman paul ryan, oh, he forgot about the extension of the bush tax cuts and also complained about the spending. >> the debt crisis is caused by spending, not taxes. and so lets go where the problem is, and thats spending. >> well, these are the same republicans who had no pro...